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... already tried and approved ; and , perhaps , I may stand excused , if , amidst the avocations of a busy winter , I have preferred the pleasures of composition and study to the minute diligence of revising a former publication . BENTINCK ...
... already tried and approved ; and , perhaps , I may stand excused , if , amidst the avocations of a busy winter , I have preferred the pleasures of composition and study to the minute diligence of revising a former publication . BENTINCK ...
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... already had occasion to mention the conquest of Britain , and to fix the boundary of the Roman province in this island . It comprehended all England , Wales , and the lowlands of Scotland , as far as the friths of Dunbarton and ...
... already had occasion to mention the conquest of Britain , and to fix the boundary of the Roman province in this island . It comprehended all England , Wales , and the lowlands of Scotland , as far as the friths of Dunbarton and ...
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... already seen , was a conquest of Trajan , and the only province beyond the river . If we in quire into the present state of those countries , we shall find that , on the left hand of the Danube , Temeswar and Tran sylvania have been ...
... already seen , was a conquest of Trajan , and the only province beyond the river . If we in quire into the present state of those countries , we shall find that , on the left hand of the Danube , Temeswar and Tran sylvania have been ...
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... already been the objects of secret contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society . + Notwithstanding the fashionable irreligion which prevailed in the age of the Antonines , both the interests of the priests , and the ...
... already been the objects of secret contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society . + Notwithstanding the fashionable irreligion which prevailed in the age of the Antonines , both the interests of the priests , and the ...
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... already enjoyed the rights of municipia , should solicit the title of colonies . Their example , however , became fashionable , and the empire was filled with honorary colonies . See Spanheim , de Usu Numismatum , Dissertat . 13 ...
... already enjoyed the rights of municipia , should solicit the title of colonies . Their example , however , became fashionable , and the empire was filled with honorary colonies . See Spanheim , de Usu Numismatum , Dissertat . 13 ...
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